Front speakers very quiet after Audyssey

I recently bought a house with what i thought would be a great theater room loft, but i am having trouble with my speaker setup. First i am running a Denon 1910 and Paradigm 5.1 surround system with Monitor 7(v6) front speakers. After i run Audyssey it seems that my front speakers sound very low listening to all inputs ( blu-ray, HDTV, Gaming...) compared to the other channels. In my old house i had to turn the level up on my centre speaker to match(by ear) the fronts for dialogue after Audyssey, but with the new room i have to turn the fronts up considerably to hear them. It seems like no matter what i do the Centre and Surrounds feel like they are overpowering my Fronts. Could it be that Audyssey is having trouble with the odd shaped room, it has a slanted ceiling with alot of angles...

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I don't think the room shape is related to this. Audyssey is setting the level of each speaker so that (1) it matches that of the other speakers and (2) the system plays at film reference when you set the volume control to 0 dB. Have you measured the levels of the speakers after calibration?

Thanks for the advice Chris. I have always run the Audyssey setup per the instructions on the "Official" Audyssey thread on the AVS forum which is very similar to the link you gave me, it seemed to work fine in my old house thats why i assumed it might be all of the angles in the new room. I'll try the setup again and see what i get...